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🗓️ 25 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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We look at the top sites where you can experience firsthand the groundbreaking contributions of Spain's greatest artists. Then tour guides from Wales and Bosnia share the facets of their nationalities that mean most to them — such as the Welsh fortitude for enduring the blustery climate that produces such beautiful landscapes, and Bosnians' knack for using humor to defuse the thornier aspects of life in the Balkans.
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0:00.0 | Where do you want to live? You probably wouldn't choose the blustery northwest coast of Wales for the weather. |
0:06.0 | It rains twice as much as it does say in London, but the wind blows constantly. |
0:12.0 | It is so beautiful, but it doesn't do you many favors. |
0:16.0 | So if you live there, you've got to want to live there and that's a great social cement. |
0:20.0 | We'll get a sense of what a good day feels like in Bosnia, Herzegovina. |
0:24.0 | When you sit somewhere outside in a beautiful sunny day, you know, |
0:28.0 | and you're done all you need to do and you're drinking your Bosnia coffee and having a cigarette, that's all there is. |
0:35.0 | And we'll enjoy the spectacular art of Spain from groundbreaking works by Picasso and Dolly to the people immortalized by Velasquez. |
0:43.0 | He was a person who really thought that everyone deserved a portrait, ordinary people like you and me. |
0:48.0 | Come along as we explore the visual arts of Spain and what it means to be Bosnian and Welsh in the hour ahead. |
0:53.0 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
0:59.0 | The ruins of castles and mines provide evidence of the one-time might of the kings and industrial barons of Wales. |
1:08.0 | Today, Wales is a mostly quiet part of Britain with its own brand of Gaelic identity that hasn't faded over the years. |
1:15.0 | Coming up in the hour ahead, Martin Delandivitz celebrates the Welsh National holiday, St David's Day, |
1:21.0 | by telling us what being a proud Welshman means to him. |
1:25.0 | And guides from Bosnia, Herzegovina, share how their complicated ethnic heritage adds layers to what it means to be Bosnian today. |
1:33.0 | Let's start the hour on travel with Rick Steves with a look at the magnificent art you'll find in Spain. |
1:39.0 | Works by painters and architects who invented new ways of looking at the world. |
1:43.0 | We're joined now by Madrid-based tour guide Federico Garcia Boroso and by Jean Opencha, my co-author on Europe's top 100 masterpieces |
1:52.0 | and the Rick Steves Europe 101 Art and History Guide. |
1:57.0 | They'll take your calls at 877-333-Rick and by email we're at radio at ricksteves.com. |
2:04.0 | Federico and Jean, thanks for being here. |
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